UNITED KINGDOM -- Dog owner Anthony Waters must pay £1,290 compensation to a woman – after his Rottweiler attacked the passerby as he fed his pet a Kit Kat.
Christine Brown was bitten on the arm and pulled face down to the ground by the dog as she walked along a road.
And 68-year-old Waters fell over as he tried to stop the attack by putting his hand in the Rottweiler's jaw.
The incident left Mrs Brown with a two-inch bite to her arm.
The animal was put down after Waters took his Rottweiler to the police.
The incident happened in Ford Green Road, Norton, on Thursday, April 19.
Clair Moss, prosecuting, told North Staffordshire Magistrates' Court yesterday: "As the victim was walking along the road she saw Waters with a brown and black Rottweiler on a lead walking towards her.
"As they passed she felt her wrist being grabbed. She fell face down on the ground and could feel the dog on top of her. She was shouting 'get it off, get it off'. Someone then told her the dog was off her."
The court heard Mrs Brown had suffered some form of scarring following the attack.
She had cancelled a holiday after being deemed medically unfit to travel.
Mrs Moss added: "Waters told police he was walking the dog when the lady walked by and for no reason the dog attacked her. He had put his hand in the dog's jaw to try to stop the attack and had fallen over in an attempt to restrain his pet."
Following the incident, Waters told police he could no longer trust the dog and asked to have it put down.
Waters, of Ryecroft Road, Norton, pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dog which was dangerously out of control in a public place and while so out of control had injured Christine Brown.
In addition to the compensation, the defendant, who has no previous convictions, was fined £490 and ordered to pay £85 court costs.
Paul Hiatt, mitigating, told magistrates: "My client was out walking his dog. He had bought it a Kit Kat and was feeding it to his dog at the time."
Mr Hiatt said Waters had made vain attempts to stop his dog but despite putting his hand in the animal's jaw it still bit the woman. He told the court that the defendant had been keeping dogs for 23 years and nothing like this had ever happened before.
(This is Staffordshire - June 15, 2012)
